sow one's oats

present singular third person sows one's oats · participle present sowing one's oats · past sowed one's oats · participle past sown one's oats · participle past sowed one's oats

1. alternativeAlternative form of sow one's wild oats.

   I feel like you sow your oats when you're young, and then you just, you know, you get it out of your system.

   2022 November 27, Mike White, “That's Amore”, in Mike White, director, The White Lotus, season 2, episode 5, spoken by Daphne Sullivan (Meghann Fahy), via HBO